Fishing for Souls: Water Technology and the Dutch Baroque
5 minutes
Early modern interaction with water, be it through coastal flooding, stranded sea-life, or trial by ordeal, was one of the totemic means of decoding a...Dike 14, Cleveland, Ohio: Containing Pollution in the Age of Ecology
6 minutes
Environmental activism in the 1960s forced the Army Corps of Engineers to limit the open-water dumping of dredge spoils in the Great Lakes and create ...German Beer and the Making of a New China
by Shen Hou
6 minutes
The first commercial filmed in China was a 1947 effort to sell Tsingtao Beer, one of the world’s most famous brands. “Tsingtao” is an older spelling o...The Reinheitsgebot: Between German Consumer Culture and the European Market
7 minutes
On 15 July, 1987, West German federal president Richard von Weizsäcker received a letter from one Andreas Z., which began: “Much has been written abou...Once Upon a Game Reserve: Sambisa and the Tragedy of a Forested Landscape
5 minutes
The Sambisa Forest, located in Borno State in northeast Nigeria, has become synonymous with Boko Haram terrorism. Boko Haram has waged a bloody war ag...Uses of Environmental History: Lise Sedrez
by Lise Sedrez
4 minutes
São Paulo, the largest city in South America, is going through a historical drought. So is California, in the USA. That is how newspapers refer to the...Entangled Nature: The Stirling Range National Park
15 minutes
From the top of Mount Trio, the Stirling Range National Park appears covered in khaki velvet, a little threadbare in parts, but soft in the folds. Str...Uses of Environmental History: Don Worster
5 minutes
If I did not believe that environmental history is already useful and practical, more so than other fields of historical research, then I would have a...Uses of Environmental History: John R. McNeill
8 minutes
“As Useful as We Want to Be” Environmental or ecological historians do not “need to become more useful and practical” in anything. They sho...Animal Rights vs. Bullfights: The Horns of an Indian Dilemma
by Rita Brara
6 minutes
Animal rights activists in India have been at the forefront of a legal campaign against jallikattu—a form of bullfighting in the province of Tami...The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador: Pachamama Has Rights
5 minutes
Nature has recently been recognized as a subject rather than an object of rights in some Latin American countries. This is the case in Bolivia, on a l...How to Read a Bridge
by Rob Nixon
13 minutes
I grew up in South Africa, our planet’s most inequitable society, and immigrated to the USA, the rich world’s most unequal one, a country in which 400...